Status of Higher
Education
●7 in high school grad start college
○Only ½ graduate on time
●Only 7.3% single parents get a degree in 6 years
○46% drop out
●Students delaying college after high school:
Only 13.7% with a degree
○If working full time: 10.7%
○No financial assistance from parents: 7.7%
●38 million working age adults: some college, no
degree
Shifting Demographics
& Work/Life
By 2035, more Americans of retirement age than people below 18
Western children, 50% chance of living to be 105
Automation |
Artificial Intelligence
Churn of Knowledge
In 2015, $160 Billion
in the U.S and $356
Billion globally spent
in corporate
education and
training
HBR, 2018
39% of large company executives barely able or unable to find the talent they need
Deloitte survey
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Transforming Learning
Personalized
Learning
●Student- content interactions
○Curriculum pathways
○Pace of learning
○Location of learning
●Student- student interactions
○Asynchronous and just in time
●Student- faculty interactions
○Asynchronous, whenever, wherever
○Informed by student performance
(learning analytics)
●Student- institution interactions
○Alerts, nudges, advising to guide
learning
The Dull
●How long does the paper need
to be? Can it be double-spaced?
●Is there an upper page limit to
the paper?
●How do I submit the paper?
●Are we required to attend the
online office hours?
●Can I get my degree plan
approved?
Automated grading | Data mining | Language assistant | Communication | Homework checker
Student
Engagement
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Transforming Curriculum &
Learning Spaces
Impact on Jobs
Impact on Curriculum
●Truck drivers
●Customer service
personnel
●Accountants
●Lawyers
●Doctors
●Teachers
●Where courses
need to improve
●Natural language
processing
(scrubbing
course forums)
●Safe learning -
extreme learning
●Creative thinking
for solving non-
routine problems
●Not what you know,
but what you can
do with what you
know
●Soft skills -
curiosity, critical
thinking
45% undergraduates
show no statistically
significant gains in
critical thinking, complex
reasoning, written
communications
2300 undergraduates in 24 institutions over 4 years
“Though the university
community is a major force of
innovation in our society, it is
curiously resistant –even
hostile-to innovations
attempted within the
university.”
Harold Enarson (1960). Innovation in Higher
Education,
Journal of Higher Education, 31 ,
p. 495
●7% of users produce 50% of
the posts on Facebook
●4% of users produce 50% of
the reviews on Amazon
●0.04% of Wikipedia’s
registered editors (about 2000
people) produced the first
version of half the entries of
English Wikipedia
Diversification of
Education & Workforce
●Distributed learning & work
as an important tool of
diversification
●AI depends on diversity of
data
Our response?
http://popin.it/kmv34a
How will AI
transform
education?
Dr. Yakut Gazi [email protected]
@yakutgazi